Drs. Liliana Lengua and Suzanne Kerns, University of Denver, offer tips on how to bring mindfulness into your everyday interactions with your child.
Mindful Parenting
The Development of Thinking About People: From Behavior to Brain
Dr. Jessica Sommerville investigates the development of thinking about people from infancy through the school years using both behavioral and brain-based methods.
Policy Brief: Advances in Social Emotional Learning: Current understanding, research and practice
This brief is a result of a CCFW Research to Real World Forum. After more than 30 years of research on social emotional learning (SEL) in classrooms, scientists and practitioners, recognizing that social emotional learning is…
Policy Brief: Laying a Foundation for Social & Emotional, Cognitive, and Academic Competence: Promoting Responsive, Secure Caregiving Relationships
This brief is a result of a CCFW Research to Real World Forum. When the primary attachment relationship is secure, children are more likely to have a range of positive outcomes, including empathy, curiosity, adaptive emotional regulation…
Policy Brief: Laying a Foundation for Academic, Social & Emotional Competence: Promoting Effortful Control
This brief is a result of a CCFW Research to Real World Forum. Effortful control, a core of self-regulation, has been shown to predict academic, social, and emotional success in both typical and at-risk children. In fact, it is a more robust predictor of early academic and social success than early verbal skills…
Family Values and Culture in the Successful Adjustment of Ethnic Minority Adolescents
Dr. Ana Mari Cauce, President of the University of Washington, discusses African and Mexican-American parenting styles and how they serve to hinder or help adolescent adjustment.